What is one referral source worth to you?
Set it to one of your real assisted living partners. Then picture losing it for six months because a new administrator brought in their own hospice.
Census Watch Weekly: $400 a month, $4,800 a year
Utah's Medicare hospice payments averaged $174.45 per day of care in fiscal year 2024 ($245.7 million over 1.41 million days, all levels of care). The 55-day default is the 2022 median hospice stay for assisted living residents, per MedPAC; the average was 165 days. Using the median and 2024 payment levels keeps these figures conservative. Revenue, not profit.
Utah's hospice market
Medicare claims for October 2023 through September 2024 (federal fiscal year 2024), including Medicare Advantage members, whose hospice care Medicare pays directly. Who pays for hospice in Utah, where patients come from, and which hospices serve the most of them.
Where hospice patients were just before they enrolled
Studies like this count assisted living as "home," so assisted living referrals disappear into the community share. Yet assisted living accounts for 24% of Medicare hospice claims, and its residents stay on hospice longest. Census Watch exists to make that channel visible.
| Hospice | City | Medicare patients | Days per patient | Medicare paid |
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| Intermountain Homecare Hospice Salt Lake | South Jordan | 1,567 | 40 | $12.2M |
| Inspiration Hospice | Clearfield | 1,262 | 93 | $20.5M |
| Canyon Hospice | Murray | 1,002 | 89 | $15.5M |
| CNS Community Hospice | West Valley City | 732 | 59 | $8.0M |
| Atlas Hospice | Layton | 700 | 80 | $9.8M |
| Rocky Mountain Hospice | Woods Cross | 645 | 69 | $7.9M |
| Symbii Hospice South | Murray | 570 | 87 | $8.6M |
| Intermountain Homecare Hospice St George | St George | 551 | 22 | $2.6M |
| Renew Hospice | Murray | 527 | 87 | $8.0M |
| A Plus Healthcare at Home Hospice | Orem | 498 | 97 | $8.3M |
The 10 Utah hospices with the most Medicare patients in fiscal year 2024. Days per patient is days of care that year divided by patients served, not lifetime length of stay. Facility residents tend to stay longer, so a high figure can point to a facility-heavy hospice. VerifiedCMS Medicare Post-Acute Care Utilization, Hospice by Provider; all 84 Utah rows pulled raw.
This month's signals
Changes worth a call this month. Each one carries a confidence label. A hiring post is a signal, not a confirmed vacancy.
Every signal was re-checked against its source on October 21, 2026. We cut four job-board signals we could not re-capture or confirm.
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A
New license
Beehive Homes of West Jordan adds two new licenses
Licenses #2 (10 beds) and #3 (13 beds), both Type I, were issued October 8–9, 2025, and share one street address, 8912 South 2700 West. License #1, a 32-bed memory care license from February 2025, is at 8892 South 2700 West.
VerifiedState licensing fileWhy it mattersThe only new assisted living licenses in the county in five years, per the state file. Referral and service relationships at a new campus are still forming.Next moveIntroduce your team to the West Jordan campus before referral habits set.
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B
Operator
One administrator of record, five licenses, 92 beds
The state lists the same administrator for Beehive Homes of Draper #1 and #2 and all three West Jordan licenses.
VerifiedState licensing fileWhy it mattersOne relationship covers five licenses in two cities. Multi-site operators are where a single yes goes furthest.Next movePropose one partnership covering all five buildings, not five separate pitches.
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C
Leadership hiring
Cedarwood at Sandy: Assistant Executive Director opening
Kisco Senior Living lists the role for Cedarwood at Sandy, a 95-bed Type II community with 15 memory care beds. The listing was first posted in October 2024 and re-posted in October 2026.
Unconfirmed signalOne job board; matched to the license by name and cityWhy it mattersA listing open this long is either a hard seat to fill or a standing pipeline role. One call tells you which, and either answer is useful.Next moveCall Cedarwood's front desk and ask who leads the community today.
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D
Data gap
22 of 63 county records show an expired license date
Eight expired before the file's March 7 update and fourteen since. Update, October 26: Utah's live licensing records show 21 of the 22 were renewed and are valid into 2026 to 2028. The 22nd, Best Assisted Living, LLC (4 beds), no longer has a public record. The March file was simply out of date.
Verifiedcount from the state file · Estimatethe reasonWhy it mattersAnyone prospecting from the public file is working from a list that is more than seven months old.Next moveConfirm a community's current leadership before you build a visit around it.
Every license, by the year it was issued
63 licenses, 4,169 beds and 1,140 memory care beds in Salt Lake County. Each line is one license at its first licensure date; height is beds. Every license dates from 1984 to 2021 except three issued in 2025.
The Salt Lake County register
All 63 licenses from the state file, searchable. Paid subscribers also get the administrator of record, main line and change history for each one.
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- Leadership and nursing turnover, matched to the license
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Every figure, with its source
Checked against the source of record on October 21–23, 2026. Click through and you'll find the same number.
| Figure | Label | Source | As of |
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| 63 licenses · 4,169 beds · 1,140 memory care beds in 36 licenses · 49 Type II, 14 Type I · 32 communities of 61+ beds hold 80% of beds · 11 of 16 beds or fewer · 22 expired dates · 3 licenses since 2021, all others 1984–2021 | Verified | Utah DHHS licensed health care facilities (UGRC); all 63 records checked field by field against the raw file | File last edited Mar 7, 2026 |
| Utah: 16,377 Medicare hospice patients · 1,408,392 days of care · $245,694,781 paid · 83 hospices · $174.45 paid per day · top-10 hospice table | Verified | CMS Medicare Post-Acute Care Utilization: Hospice; all 84 Utah rows pulled raw | FY2024 |
| Median hospice stay: 55 days in assisted living, 22 in nursing facilities, 25 at home; assisted living average 165 days | Verified | MedPAC Data Book, July 2024, Chart 11-15 | 2022 decedents |
| 24% of Medicare hospice claims are for care in assisted living | Verified | Research Institute for Home Care, Hospice Care Chartbook 2024, Exhibit 3.2 | 2022–2023 claims |
| 13.3% Medicare margin for hospices with the most facility patients vs 0.2% for the rest | Verified | MedPAC, March 2026 Report, Chapter 10 | 2023 |
| Before enrolling: 39% hospital, 41% home, 20% nursing facility | Verified | Ankuda et al., JAMA Health Forum 2023; enrollees in their last 90 days of life | 2011–2018 |
| $9,595 per admission · $115,137 a year · $57,569 at risk | Estimate | $174.45 × 55 days; × 12 months; × 6 months | Oct 23, 2026 |
| Half an admission a year pays for Census Watch Weekly | Conservative floor | $4,800 ÷ $9,595, using the median stay and 2024 payment levels | Oct 23, 2026 |
| Cedarwood at Sandy leadership listing | Unconfirmed signal | ZipRecruiter listing | Captured Oct 21, 2026 |
Corrections: Oct 26, 2026: signal D now reflects Utah's live licensing records. 21 of the 22 licenses shown as expired in the March state file had been renewed. Oct 24, 2026: the Utah hospice market figures were labeled "traditional Medicare." They also include Medicare Advantage members, whose hospice care Medicare pays directly. Label corrected; no numbers changed.